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Publications

Fisheries Research

Schneider E.V.C, Talwar B.S., Killen S., Russell S., Van Leeuwen T., Bailey D.M. 2023. Colonization, diversity, and seasonality of fishes at pelagic fish aggregating devices (FADs). Journal of Fish Biology.

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Talwar B.S., Bradley D., Berry C., Bond M.E., Bouyoucos I.A., Brooks A.M.L., Fields C.Y.A., Gallagher A.J., Guttridge T.L., Guttridge A.E., Hammerschlag N., Hamilton I., Keller B.A., Kessel S.T., Matich P., O’Shea O.R., Papastamatiou Y.P., Raguse C., Schneider E.V.C., Shipley O.N., Smukall M.J., van Zinnicq Bergmann M.P.M., Brooks E.J. 2022. Estimated life-history traits and movements of the Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi) in The Bahamas based on tag-recapture data. Marine Biology.

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Talwar B.S., Bouyoucos I.A., Brooks, E.J., Brownscombe J.W., Suski C.D., Cooke S.J., Grubbs, R.D., Mandelman J.W. 2020. Variation in behavioural responses of sub-tropical marine fishes to experimental longline capture. ICES Journal of Marine Science.

Talwar B.S., Stein J.A., Connett S.M.H., Liss S.A., Brooks E.J. 2020. Results of a fishery-independent longline survey targeting coastal sharks in the eastern Bahamas between 1979 and 2013. Fisheries Research.

Talwar B., Mandelman J.W., Brooks E.J., Grubbs R.D. 2017. Stress, post-release mortality, and recovery of commonly discarded deep-sea sharks caught on longlines. Marine Ecology Progress Series.

Talwar B., Brooks E.J., Grubbs R.D. 2016. An assessment of post-release mortality for a commonly discarded deep-sea isopod using reflex impairment. ICES Journal of Marine Science.

Conservation & Management

Allerton A.J., Schneider E.V.C., Kiszka J.J., Talwar B.SIn review. Trends in marine mammal bycatch in U.S. fisheries from 1990 to 2017. Global Ecology and Conservation.

Talwar B.S.,  Brooks E.J., Abercrombie D.L., Anderson B., Bond M.E., Brooks A.M.L., Champan D.D., Clementi G.M., Fields Y.A., Gelsleichter J., Grubbs R.D., Howey L.A., Jordan L.K.B., Kiszka J.J., Knotek R.J., Papastamatiou Y.P., Peterson C.T., Schneider E.V.C., Shipley O.N., Williams S., Winchester M.M., Heithaus M.R. 2023. Insights into the ecology, life history, and relative abundance of oceanic sharks in the eastern Bahamas. Sustainability.

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Pacoureau N., Carlson J.K., Kindsvater H.K., Rigby C.L., Winker H., Simpfendorfer C.A., Charvet,P., Pollom R.A., Barreto R., Sherman C.S., Talwar B.S., Skerritt D.J., Sumaila U.R., Matsushiba J.H., VanderWright W.J., Yan H.F., Dulvy N.K. 2023. Conservation successes and challenges for wide-ranging sharks and rays. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Talwar B.S., Anderson B., Avalos-Castillo C.G., del Pilar Blanco-Parra M., Briones A., Cardeñosa D., Carlson J.K., Charvet P., Cotton C.F., Crysler Z., Derrick D.H., Heithaus M.R., Herman K.B., Koubrak, O., Kulka D.W., Kyne P.M., Lasso-Alcalá O.M., Mejía-Falla P.A., Morales-Saldaña J.M. … Dulvy N.K. 2022. Extinction risk, reconstructed catches and management of chondrichthyan fishes in the Western Central Atlantic Ocean. Fish and Fisheries.

IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group. Co-author of Red List Assessments: Carcharhinus signatus, Carcharhinus perezi, Carcharhinus isodon, Carcharhinus acronotus, Ginglymostoma cirratum, Rhizoprionodon terraenovae, Mustelus norrisi, Mustelus canis, Pristiophorus schroederi, Urobatis jamaicensis, Myliobatis freminvillii, Myliobatis goodei, & Bathytoshia centroura (available at www.iucnredlist.org)

Kiszka J., Talwar B. IOTC-WBEP13 2017. Report of the 13th Session of the IOTC Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch. Executive Summary: Cetaceans. San Sebastian, Spain. 

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Stress Physiology

Schneider E.V.C, Zuckerman Z., Talwar B.S., Cooke S.J., Shultz A., Suski C.D. Aerobic responses to climate change differ across ontogeny in a teleost fish. Journal of Fish Biology.

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Prohaska, B.K., Talwar B.S., Grubbs R.D. 2021. Blood biochemical status of deep-sea sharks following longline capture in the Gulf of Mexico. Conservation Physiology.

Boyoucos I.A., Talwar B.S., Brooks E.J., Brownscombe J., Cooke S.J., Suski C.D., Mandelman J.W. 2018. Exercise intensity while hooked is associated with physiological status of longline-captured sharks. Conservation Physiology. 

Behavior & Trophic Ecology

Shipley O.N., Matich P., Hussey N.E., Brooks A.M.L., Chapman D., Frisk M.G., Guttridge A.E., Guttridge T.L., Howey L.A., Kattan S., Madigan D.J., O'Shea O.O., Polunin N.V., Power M., Smukall M.J., Schneider E.V.C., Shea B.D.,  Talwar B.S., Winchester M., Brooks E.J., Gallagher A.J. 2023. Energetic connectivity of diverse elasmobranch populations - implications for ecological resilience. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

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Talwar B.S., Bond M.E., Williams S., Brooks E.J., Chapman D.D., Howey L.A., Knotek R., Gelsleichter J. 2023. Reproductive timing and putative mating behavior of the oceanic whitetip shark Carcharhinus longimanus in the eastern Bahamas. Endangered Species Research.

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Shipley O., Talwar B., Grubbs R.D., Brooks E.J. 2016. Isopods associated with deepwater sharks Squalus cubensis and Heptranchias perlo from The Bahamas. Marine Biodiversity.

Harborne A., Talwar B., Brooks E.J. 2016. The conservation implications of spatial and temporal variability in the diurnal use of Bahamian tidal mangrove creeks by transient predatory fishes. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.

O’Shea O. R., Mandelman J.W, Talwar B., Brooks E.J. 2015. Novel observations of an opportunistic predation event by four apex predatory sharks. Marine & Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology.

Toolbox

Shipley O.N., Bruce N.L., Higgs N.D., Rawlins S., Irschick D.J., Gutierrez R., Moyer J.K., Violich M., Talwar B.S., Schneider E.V.C., Robinson N.J., Brooks E.J. 2024. A new species of deep-sea Booralana Bruce, 1986 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) from The Bahamas, Western North Atlantic. Zootaxa.

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Knotek R.J., Brooks E.J., Howey L.A., Gelsleichter J.G., Talwar B.S., Winchester M.M., Jordan L.K.B., Williams S., Bond M.E., Brooks A.M.L., Shipley O.N., Bacon T., Kneebone J.R., Mandelman J.W. 2022. Merging technologies and supervised classification methods to quantify capture behavior on hook-and-line. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.

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Shipley O.N., Henkes G., Gelsleichter J., Morgan C., Schneider E.V.C., Talwar B.S., Frisk M. 2021. Shark tooth collagen stable isotope ratios (δ15N and δ13C) to study time-variant ecologies. Journal of Animal
Ecology.

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van Zinnicq Bergmann M., Postaire B.D., Gastrich K., Heithaus M.R., Hoopes L.A., Lyons K., Papastamatiou Y.P., Schneider E.V.C., Strickland B.A., Talwar B.S., Chapman D.D.,  Bakker J. 2021. Elucidating shark diets with DNA metabarcoding from cloacal swabs. Molecular Ecology Resources.

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Talwar B., Bouyoucos I.A., Shipley O., Rummer J., Mandelman J., Brooks E.J., Grubbs R.D. 2017. Validation of a portable, waterproof blood pH analyzer for elasmobranchs. Conservation Physiology.

Shipley O.N., Sweeting C.J., Olin J.A., Brooks E.J., Barker S., Polunin N.V.C., Witt M.J., Talwar B., Newman S.P., Hussey N.E. 2017. Polar compounds preclude mathematical lipid correction of carbon stable isotopes in deep-water sharks. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology & Ecology.

Book Contributions & Other Reports

Talwar B., Harborne A., Brooks E.J. 2015. The conservation implications of spatial and temporal variability in the diurnal use of Bahamian tidal mangrove creeks by transient predatory fishes. ​In Proceedings of the Mangroves as Fish Habitat Symposium. American Fisheries Society.

Talwar B., Lent R., Berggren P., Hines E., Kiszka J., Henry L. Marine Mammal Bycatch in Global Fisheries: A Workshop Summary of Mitigation Measures, Tools, & Solutions. 22nd Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. 

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